On 10/12/2011 04:29 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Wednesday, 2011-10-12, Török Edwin wrote: >> I tried moving kde to .kde-old, and logging in again but that didn't help. >> >> I finally tracked down the problem: XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable was >> empty which caused a number of applications to not function correctly in >> KDE (pidgin not finding its icons, openbox not findings the themes, etc.). >> I removed /var/cache/desktop-profiles/activated-profiles, and run >> update-profile-cache as root. >> >> Now when I login all the icons show up in the tray as they are supposed to, >> because XDG_DATA_DIRS is no longer empty! > > Can you try unsetting XDG_DATA_DIRS and see if the problem shows up again?
This makes the problem show up again export XDG_DATA_DIRS= pidgin So does this: export XDG_DATA_DIRS=: pidgin This works correctly unset XDG_DATA_DIRS pidgin And this is what I actually had (sorry missed the :) when I wrote my previous reply: XDG_DATA_DIRS=: > > XDG_DATA_DIRS unset or empty should work, applications are supposed to fall > back to the specified default value (/usr/share:/usr/local/share if I > remember > correctly). Best regards, --Edwin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e959755.80...@gmail.com
